News
Sylvain Pasquet has been hired by OZCAR last February for a post-doc that should facilitate collaborations between the numerous OZCAR observatories and the equipment facility CRITEX. Sylvain comes back from a 2-year post-doc in the US where he worked, within the CZO program and in Yellowstone, on characterizing the architecture of the critical zone and […]
Internships & opportunities
CZ-TOP project seeks two postdoctoral and one Ph.D. candidate for positions at IPGP in France. Funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR), a new CZ research project, “CZ-TOP”, seeks to integrate stable isotope tracers with reactive transport and non-steady state hydrologic modeling to gain an improved understanding of […]
Events
OZCAR research infrastructure will be attending the European Geosciences Union General Assembly, in Vienna (Austria) from April 9 to 13. Session : SSS3.5/GM3.10/HS11.51 Assessing the Critical Zone functioning and reconstructing its evolution, based on soils and sediments, interpreting the geochemical composition of soils and sediments with respect to provenance, palaeoenvironments and pollution (co-organized) https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2018/session/27066 Chemical […]
News
This announcement is an open solicitation for applications by graduate students or postgraduates at US universities to receive funds for international travel to French Critical Zone Observatories during 2018. A similar program of research-related travel awards is being offered by France to support travel by their students to U.S. CZOs. A major goal of the […]
Observatories
The Yzeron catchment (150 km2) is located to the south-west of Lyon city, France. It forms part of the Observatoire de Terrain en Hydrologie Urbaine (OTHU, http://www.graie.org/othu/index.htm ) long term observatory. It is representative of French periurban areas and is characterized by a marked topography (162 m at the outlet when it reaches the Rhône […]
Observatories
The ROSES observatory stands for Observatory network of groundwater systems at France level. It gathers more than 77 000 water points, with 74 000 groundwater quality points and 4400 monitoring wells, distributed among 275 monitoring networks (early warning networks for industrial installations, national and local groundwater monitoring networks, water uses networks with sanitary goal). All the variety […]
Observatories
The Réal Collobrier, the oldest French observatory on Mediterranean hydrology. The observatory of the Réal Collobrier basins was set up in 1967 to improve the knowledge of particular hydrological phenomena in the Mediterranean area. Located in forest and rural areas on metamorphic soils of the Massif des Maures in the Var, it is a landmark […]
Observatories
The Regional Spatial Observatory (OSR), labeled in 2007 by the National Institute of Sciences of the univers (INSU), is supported by the Center of Spatial Studies of the BIOSPHERE (CESBIO, OMP) The mission of the OSR aims at documenting on the long term the effects of the climate change and the increasing anthropogenic pressures on […]
Observatories
The Earth surface evolves under the action of geological, chemical, physical, biological and anthropogenic processes involving a wide range of time and length scales (from the meter and the second up to the thousand of kilometers and the million years). These processes control the evolution of soils, the shape of landscapes and the coupling between […]
Observatories
Objective The Jurassic Karst (JK) scheme in place since 2009 aims to characterise the long-term evolution of the limestone aquifer system of the Jura mountains. Issues The karst’s low filtering capacity makes the water resources of the associated aquifer systems very vulnerable. The JK scheme is designed to study relations between the biogeochemical functioning of […]